Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has urged lawmakers to postpone controversial constitutional amendments, dissolved the central government, and declared a one-year state of emergency amid massive protests against poor living conditions. In a televised speech on Friday, al-Bashir called on Sudan’s parliament to postpone controversial constitutional amendments that would allow him to run ...
French soldiers have killed a senior jihadist commander, Yahya Abou El Hamame, in an operation in Mali, France’s Defense Minister Florence Parly said Friday. The Algerian, an Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) commander, was allegedly responsible for the kidnapping of a number of Westerners in North and West Africa. ...